Metaballs

Category: Objects Tags: liquid, organic, generative, pattern, soft, grid

Grid-tiled liquid blobs with 4 field modes (blob, smooth, Blinn, hard), per-ball size jitter, hue spread, density culling, and pseudo-3D core shading.

Parameters

Shape

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Grid	1 – 10	3
Field	0 – 3	0
Size	0 – 100	50	%
Size Jitter	0 – 100	0	%
Merge	0 – 100	60	%
Edge	0 – 100	20	%
Density	0 – 100	100	%
Depth	0 – 100	30	%

Motion

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Speed	-100 – 100	10
Phase	0 – 360	0	°
Orbit	0 – 100	60	%

View

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Scale	0 – 100	28.6
Rotation	0 – 360	0	°

Color

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Hue	0 – 360	208.8	°
Saturation	0 – 100	78	%
Brightness	0 – 100	100	%
Spread	0 – 100	0	%

Background

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Hue	0 – 360	154.8	°
Saturation	0 – 100	82	%
Brightness	0 – 100	15	%
Opacity	0 – 100	100	%

Transform (universal)

These parameters are available on all sources.

Parameter	Range	Default	Unit
Position X	-100 – 100	0
Position Y	-100 – 100	0
Rotation	-180 – 180	0	°
Scale	0 – 200	100	%
Zoom	0 – 200	100	%